A cocktail bar’s licence is due to be reviewed again by councillors after the owners appealed against their previous decision.

A cocktail bar’s licence is due to be reviewed again by councillors after the owners appealed against their previous decision.

Reading Borough Council ordered Mix Bar, in King’s Walk, to close for two weeks at a hearing in June after police argued the venue had not had a designated premises supervisor (DPS) in place for three-and-a-half-years.

Managers at the bar appealed against the decision and appeared at Reading Magistrates Court last Tuesday, where it emerged the council’s decision had been made applying the wrong criteria.

The court referred the matter back to the council for a new hearing using the correct test, which is in fact stricter than the one initially used.

The council’s licensing applications sub-committee is due to meet at the Civic Offices at 9.30am next Friday.